This document discusses strategies for calculating the total cost of ownership (TCO) when moving IT infrastructure to the AWS cloud. It recommends a four-step process: 1) Understanding use cases and applications; 2) Considering all fixed costs; 3) Leveraging updated pricing models like reserved instances; 4) Comparing options like reserved vs on-demand pricing. The document provides examples showing how AWS options can significantly reduce TCO compared to on-premises infrastructure for different application usage patterns.
Cloud architecture and deployment: The Kognitio checklist, Nigel Sanctuary, K...CloudOps Summit
CloudOps Summit 2012, Frankfurt, 20.9.2012 Track 2 - Build and Run
by Nigel Sanctuary, VP Propositions at Kognitio (www.kognitio.com)
http://cloudops.de/sprecher/#nigelsanctuary
Find the video of this talk at http://youtu.be/wQrHQNOMlKc
To Each Their Own: How to Solve Analytic ComplexityInside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Shawn Rogers and Noetix
Slides from the Live Webcast on Aug. 14, 2012
One size will never fit all in the complex world of information management. In fact, the variety of information systems in use continues to expand. That includes all kinds of systems: data-producing applications, data-processing apps, and the downstream tools used for reporting and analytics. How can data-savvy organizations stay ahead of the curve?
Check out this episode of The Briefing Room to learn from Analyst Shawn Rogers of Enterprise Management Associates, who will explain how effective use of standard data models can solve the complexity of increasingly heterogeneous information architectures. Rogers will be briefed by Daryl Orts of Noetix who will tout his company’s wide range of industry and application-specific data models which can be used to satisfy the particular needs of today’s diverse user community.
For more information, visit: http://www.insideanalysis.com
Cloud architecture and deployment: The Kognitio checklist, Nigel Sanctuary, K...CloudOps Summit
CloudOps Summit 2012, Frankfurt, 20.9.2012 Track 2 - Build and Run
by Nigel Sanctuary, VP Propositions at Kognitio (www.kognitio.com)
http://cloudops.de/sprecher/#nigelsanctuary
Find the video of this talk at http://youtu.be/wQrHQNOMlKc
To Each Their Own: How to Solve Analytic ComplexityInside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Shawn Rogers and Noetix
Slides from the Live Webcast on Aug. 14, 2012
One size will never fit all in the complex world of information management. In fact, the variety of information systems in use continues to expand. That includes all kinds of systems: data-producing applications, data-processing apps, and the downstream tools used for reporting and analytics. How can data-savvy organizations stay ahead of the curve?
Check out this episode of The Briefing Room to learn from Analyst Shawn Rogers of Enterprise Management Associates, who will explain how effective use of standard data models can solve the complexity of increasingly heterogeneous information architectures. Rogers will be briefed by Daryl Orts of Noetix who will tout his company’s wide range of industry and application-specific data models which can be used to satisfy the particular needs of today’s diverse user community.
For more information, visit: http://www.insideanalysis.com
2010 Software Licensing and Pricing Survey Results and 2011 PredictionsFlexera
2010 Software Licensing and Pricing Survey Results and 2011 Predictions by Amy Konary, Director, Software Pricing and Licensing, IDC
Presented at SoftSummit 2010
Petteri Uljas, Capgemini; Corporate VP, Head of Infrastructure Services; Eastern Europe, India and Latin America
Cloud doesn’t change everything
Evolutionary in implementation, revolutionary in usage.
Normal IT project methodologies apply (mostly).
Leverage processes and skills you already have.
Don’t throw everything out because a small part is new.
Everything that holds up “traditional” projects will hold up your first Cloud project.
Steve Sams (VP IBM Global Site & Facilities Services) presentation at Gartner Data Center Conference (Dec 2011). Learn more about IBM Smarter Data Center Services: ibm.co/smarterdc
A portal server solution has been found to be better in terms out of box features, need of modern enterprise-especially considering near future competitors offerings, faster development, ease of use, security, scalability, branding, usability... and lot more..
HCLT Brochure: E-Discovery and Document Review SolutionsHCL Technologies
http://www.hcltech.com/search/apachesolr_search/business-services~ More on Business Services
With the number of litigations expected to increase due to the economy, corporations and law firms are increasingly concerned with cost effective high-quality electronic d`iscovery (“e-discovery”) solutions. With 70% of the total cost of a litigation attributed to the document review fees, corporations and law firms must select innovative document review solutions to stay in budget. Simple Solutions’ e-Discovery and Document Review Services provides corporations and law firms with high quality, cost-effective document review services that gives them the cost certainty needed to stay in budget.
e-Discovery companies are leveraging cloud computing and deployment of Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms with focus on back office services to improve legal compliance service levels.
Download our e-Discovery and Document Review Solutions Brochure to understand how HCL focuses on creating efficient and cost effective document review solutions by marrying e-discovery.
PowerAdvisor’s open architecture provides feature richfunctionality that maximizes productivity and profitability.PowerPortal provides secure, customized web portals for viewing and retrieval of reports and other documents. Increase trade desk productivity with automated portfolio rebalancing and trade order processing with PowerTrade.
Connect the Cloud: A Strategy for Enterprise, Mobile and Developer APIsRyan Boyles
On March 14th, IBM Cloud Integration CTO Rishi Vaish and IBM Senior Product Marketing Manager Jaime D'Anna held a live interactive video chat with moderator, IBM Impact Social Media Strategist Ryan Boyles.
This interactive video chat series brings together thought leaders from IBM to share their experiences of how the tech world is changing, and what some customers are doing with the help of IBM Software.
Intergen Twilight Seminar: Infrastructure Management made easyIntergen
The deployment, management and operation of software and infrastructure across organisations is critical to ensure you get the maximum benefit from your investments.
Microsoft recognises that this extends from the desktop to the datacentre and that it is a critical factor for organisations wanting information technology to be an enabler for their business. The Microsoft Systems Centre Suite provides management of physical, virtual and mobile IT environments for enterprises and mid-sized organisations.
This session was presented by industry recognised experts Mark Fenwick and Andrew Kosmadakis and includes information from the recent Microsoft Management Summit.
If you are a CFO/CIO or have responsibility for Infrastructure Management and deployment then this presentation should be of interest to you.
To View this webinar replay:
http://ecast.opensystemsmedia.com/316
As Operational Technologies (OT) like embedded devices, control and monitoring systems are increasingly integrated with Information Technology (IT) systems running in the back office, interaction patterns between systems are becoming more complex and diverse. Publish-Subscribe is the most commonly used messaging pattern for OT systems. It provides the real-time information access, scalability, and loose coupling required for integration of these types of systems. IT and OT integration, however, commonly requires messaging patterns that provide stronger end-to-end properties, such as Guaranteed Delivery, Request-Reply, and (load-balancing) Queues. RTI is greatly enhancing its infrastructure software with new messaging patterns that combine the performance, scalability, and reliability needed by OT systems with the integration and flexible messaging capabilities of IT systems.
Andy Jassy Illuminates Amazon Web ServicesMichael Skok
Andy Jassy, senior vice president of Amazon Web Services, provides an overview of AWS at the May 8, 2013 Startup Secrets session at Harvard innovation lab.
2010 Software Licensing and Pricing Survey Results and 2011 PredictionsFlexera
2010 Software Licensing and Pricing Survey Results and 2011 Predictions by Amy Konary, Director, Software Pricing and Licensing, IDC
Presented at SoftSummit 2010
Petteri Uljas, Capgemini; Corporate VP, Head of Infrastructure Services; Eastern Europe, India and Latin America
Cloud doesn’t change everything
Evolutionary in implementation, revolutionary in usage.
Normal IT project methodologies apply (mostly).
Leverage processes and skills you already have.
Don’t throw everything out because a small part is new.
Everything that holds up “traditional” projects will hold up your first Cloud project.
Steve Sams (VP IBM Global Site & Facilities Services) presentation at Gartner Data Center Conference (Dec 2011). Learn more about IBM Smarter Data Center Services: ibm.co/smarterdc
A portal server solution has been found to be better in terms out of box features, need of modern enterprise-especially considering near future competitors offerings, faster development, ease of use, security, scalability, branding, usability... and lot more..
HCLT Brochure: E-Discovery and Document Review SolutionsHCL Technologies
http://www.hcltech.com/search/apachesolr_search/business-services~ More on Business Services
With the number of litigations expected to increase due to the economy, corporations and law firms are increasingly concerned with cost effective high-quality electronic d`iscovery (“e-discovery”) solutions. With 70% of the total cost of a litigation attributed to the document review fees, corporations and law firms must select innovative document review solutions to stay in budget. Simple Solutions’ e-Discovery and Document Review Services provides corporations and law firms with high quality, cost-effective document review services that gives them the cost certainty needed to stay in budget.
e-Discovery companies are leveraging cloud computing and deployment of Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms with focus on back office services to improve legal compliance service levels.
Download our e-Discovery and Document Review Solutions Brochure to understand how HCL focuses on creating efficient and cost effective document review solutions by marrying e-discovery.
PowerAdvisor’s open architecture provides feature richfunctionality that maximizes productivity and profitability.PowerPortal provides secure, customized web portals for viewing and retrieval of reports and other documents. Increase trade desk productivity with automated portfolio rebalancing and trade order processing with PowerTrade.
Connect the Cloud: A Strategy for Enterprise, Mobile and Developer APIsRyan Boyles
On March 14th, IBM Cloud Integration CTO Rishi Vaish and IBM Senior Product Marketing Manager Jaime D'Anna held a live interactive video chat with moderator, IBM Impact Social Media Strategist Ryan Boyles.
This interactive video chat series brings together thought leaders from IBM to share their experiences of how the tech world is changing, and what some customers are doing with the help of IBM Software.
Intergen Twilight Seminar: Infrastructure Management made easyIntergen
The deployment, management and operation of software and infrastructure across organisations is critical to ensure you get the maximum benefit from your investments.
Microsoft recognises that this extends from the desktop to the datacentre and that it is a critical factor for organisations wanting information technology to be an enabler for their business. The Microsoft Systems Centre Suite provides management of physical, virtual and mobile IT environments for enterprises and mid-sized organisations.
This session was presented by industry recognised experts Mark Fenwick and Andrew Kosmadakis and includes information from the recent Microsoft Management Summit.
If you are a CFO/CIO or have responsibility for Infrastructure Management and deployment then this presentation should be of interest to you.
To View this webinar replay:
http://ecast.opensystemsmedia.com/316
As Operational Technologies (OT) like embedded devices, control and monitoring systems are increasingly integrated with Information Technology (IT) systems running in the back office, interaction patterns between systems are becoming more complex and diverse. Publish-Subscribe is the most commonly used messaging pattern for OT systems. It provides the real-time information access, scalability, and loose coupling required for integration of these types of systems. IT and OT integration, however, commonly requires messaging patterns that provide stronger end-to-end properties, such as Guaranteed Delivery, Request-Reply, and (load-balancing) Queues. RTI is greatly enhancing its infrastructure software with new messaging patterns that combine the performance, scalability, and reliability needed by OT systems with the integration and flexible messaging capabilities of IT systems.
Andy Jassy Illuminates Amazon Web ServicesMichael Skok
Andy Jassy, senior vice president of Amazon Web Services, provides an overview of AWS at the May 8, 2013 Startup Secrets session at Harvard innovation lab.
This webinar will present a broad overview of what you should expect from AWS re:Invent 2015 and how attendees should gain value from the conference.
This webinar will speak to all facets of AWS re:Invent: technical sessions, training, bootcamps, hands-on labs, GameDay, Hackathon, partnerships and sponsor activity, customer presentations, networking, afterhours, AWS certification exams, the Pub Crawl, re:Play party, and more.
Learning Objectives:
• Understand the value and benefits of AWS re:Invent 2015
Target Audience:
• Anyone who has registered to attend AWS re:Invent 2015
The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of Web Applications in the AWS Cloud - Jine...Amazon Web Services
Weighing the financial considerations of owning and operating a data center facility versus employing a cloud infrastructure requires detailed and careful analysis. In practice, it is not as simple as just measuring potential hardware expense alongside utility pricing for compute and storage resources. The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is often the financial metric used to estimate and compare direct and indirect costs of a product or a service. Given the large differences between the two models, it is challenging to perform accurate apples-to-apples cost comparisons between on-premises data centers and cloud infrastructure that is offered as a service. In this presentation, we explain the economic benefits of deploying a web application in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud over deploying an equivalent web application hosted in an on-premises data center and highlight the 5 things to not forget while calculating TCO.
Whitepaper: http://bit.ly/aws-tco-webapps
Zane Moi, Head of Business Development, Hong Kong & Taiwan, AWS
Enterprises that are embracing cloud computing are interested in driving fundamental changes in their business so they can compete in the future. IT transformation, enabled by cloud adoption, is a key component of this future success—from tighter alignment with business unit stakeholders to increased agility and pace of innovation. In this session, we explore the potential for transformation that comes with cloud adoption and discuss how some of the world’s leading enterprises were able to transform. We also explore organizational and technology best practices that you can implement to support transformation in your organization.
2014년 10월 29일에 열린 AWS Enterprise Summit에서의 발표자료입니다. 아마존 웹서비스의 APAC Principal Technology Evangelist인 Markku Lepisto가 진행한 강연입니다.
강연 요약: 클라우드 컴퓨팅은 기업들의 IT 서비스 소비와 생산 방식을 빠르게 변화시키고 있습니다. 일반적으로 큰 규모의 기업들은 클라우드 컴퓨팅의 가치를 잘 인식하고 있지만, 자신들의 사업에 적합하게 클라우드 컴퓨팅을 평가하고 도입할 방법에 대해서는 확실히 파악하고 있지 못한 기업들이 많습니다. 이 세션에서는 클라우드 도입의 여러가지 전략과 각 단계에 대해 살펴보도록 하겠습니다.
Overview of SaaS and online services and the business reasons why organisations should be considering these. Delivered by Ben Kepes at Intergen's ON seminar series in May 2010.
Come costruire servizi di Forecasting sfruttando algoritmi di ML e deep learn...Amazon Web Services
Il Forecasting è un processo importante per tantissime aziende e viene utilizzato in vari ambiti per cercare di prevedere in modo accurato la crescita e distribuzione di un prodotto, l’utilizzo delle risorse necessarie nelle linee produttive, presentazioni finanziarie e tanto altro. Amazon utilizza delle tecniche avanzate di forecasting, in parte questi servizi sono stati messi a disposizione di tutti i clienti AWS.
In questa sessione illustreremo come pre-processare i dati che contengono una componente temporale e successivamente utilizzare un algoritmo che a partire dal tipo di dato analizzato produce un forecasting accurato.
Big Data per le Startup: come creare applicazioni Big Data in modalità Server...Amazon Web Services
La varietà e la quantità di dati che si crea ogni giorno accelera sempre più velocemente e rappresenta una opportunità irripetibile per innovare e creare nuove startup.
Tuttavia gestire grandi quantità di dati può apparire complesso: creare cluster Big Data su larga scala sembra essere un investimento accessibile solo ad aziende consolidate. Ma l’elasticità del Cloud e, in particolare, i servizi Serverless ci permettono di rompere questi limiti.
Vediamo quindi come è possibile sviluppare applicazioni Big Data rapidamente, senza preoccuparci dell’infrastruttura, ma dedicando tutte le risorse allo sviluppo delle nostre le nostre idee per creare prodotti innovativi.
Ora puoi utilizzare Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) per eseguire pod Kubernetes su AWS Fargate, il motore di elaborazione serverless creato per container su AWS. Questo rende più semplice che mai costruire ed eseguire le tue applicazioni Kubernetes nel cloud AWS.In questa sessione presenteremo le caratteristiche principali del servizio e come distribuire la tua applicazione in pochi passaggi
Vent'anni fa Amazon ha attraversato una trasformazione radicale con l'obiettivo di aumentare il ritmo dell'innovazione. In questo periodo abbiamo imparato come cambiare il nostro approccio allo sviluppo delle applicazioni ci ha permesso di aumentare notevolmente l'agilità, la velocità di rilascio e, in definitiva, ci ha consentito di creare applicazioni più affidabili e scalabili. In questa sessione illustreremo come definiamo le applicazioni moderne e come la creazione di app moderne influisce non solo sull'architettura dell'applicazione, ma sulla struttura organizzativa, sulle pipeline di rilascio dello sviluppo e persino sul modello operativo. Descriveremo anche approcci comuni alla modernizzazione, compreso l'approccio utilizzato dalla stessa Amazon.com.
Come spendere fino al 90% in meno con i container e le istanze spot Amazon Web Services
L’utilizzo dei container è in continua crescita.
Se correttamente disegnate, le applicazioni basate su Container sono molto spesso stateless e flessibili.
I servizi AWS ECS, EKS e Kubernetes su EC2 possono sfruttare le istanze Spot, portando ad un risparmio medio del 70% rispetto alle istanze On Demand. In questa sessione scopriremo insieme quali sono le caratteristiche delle istanze Spot e come possono essere utilizzate facilmente su AWS. Impareremo inoltre come Spreaker sfrutta le istanze spot per eseguire applicazioni di diverso tipo, in produzione, ad una frazione del costo on-demand!
In recent months, many customers have been asking us the question – how to monetise Open APIs, simplify Fintech integrations and accelerate adoption of various Open Banking business models. Therefore, AWS and FinConecta would like to invite you to Open Finance marketplace presentation on October 20th.
Event Agenda :
Open banking so far (short recap)
• PSD2, OB UK, OB Australia, OB LATAM, OB Israel
Intro to Open Finance marketplace
• Scope
• Features
• Tech overview and Demo
The role of the Cloud
The Future of APIs
• Complying with regulation
• Monetizing data / APIs
• Business models
• Time to market
One platform for all: a Strategic approach
Q&A
Rendi unica l’offerta della tua startup sul mercato con i servizi Machine Lea...Amazon Web Services
Per creare valore e costruire una propria offerta differenziante e riconoscibile, le startup di successo sanno come combinare tecnologie consolidate con componenti innovativi creati ad hoc.
AWS fornisce servizi pronti all'utilizzo e, allo stesso tempo, permette di personalizzare e creare gli elementi differenzianti della propria offerta.
Concentrandoci sulle tecnologie di Machine Learning, vedremo come selezionare i servizi di intelligenza artificiale offerti da AWS e, anche attraverso una demo, come costruire modelli di Machine Learning personalizzati utilizzando SageMaker Studio.
OpsWorks Configuration Management: automatizza la gestione e i deployment del...Amazon Web Services
Con l'approccio tradizionale al mondo IT per molti anni è stato difficile implementare tecniche di DevOps, che finora spesso hanno previsto attività manuali portando di tanto in tanto a dei downtime degli applicativi interrompendo l'operatività dell'utente. Con l'avvento del cloud, le tecniche di DevOps sono ormai a portata di tutti a basso costo per qualsiasi genere di workload, garantendo maggiore affidabilità del sistema e risultando in dei significativi miglioramenti della business continuity.
AWS mette a disposizione AWS OpsWork come strumento di Configuration Management che mira ad automatizzare e semplificare la gestione e i deployment delle istanze EC2 per mezzo di workload Chef e Puppet.
Scopri come sfruttare AWS OpsWork a garanzia e affidabilità del tuo applicativo installato su Instanze EC2.
Microsoft Active Directory su AWS per supportare i tuoi Windows WorkloadsAmazon Web Services
Vuoi conoscere le opzioni per eseguire Microsoft Active Directory su AWS? Quando si spostano carichi di lavoro Microsoft in AWS, è importante considerare come distribuire Microsoft Active Directory per supportare la gestione, l'autenticazione e l'autorizzazione dei criteri di gruppo. In questa sessione, discuteremo le opzioni per la distribuzione di Microsoft Active Directory su AWS, incluso AWS Directory Service per Microsoft Active Directory e la distribuzione di Active Directory su Windows su Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Trattiamo argomenti quali l'integrazione del tuo ambiente Microsoft Active Directory locale nel cloud e l'utilizzo di applicazioni SaaS, come Office 365, con AWS Single Sign-On.
Dal riconoscimento facciale al riconoscimento di frodi o difetti di fabbricazione, l'analisi di immagini e video che sfruttano tecniche di intelligenza artificiale, si stanno evolvendo e raffinando a ritmi elevati. In questo webinar esploreremo le possibilità messe a disposizione dai servizi AWS per applicare lo stato dell'arte delle tecniche di computer vision a scenari reali.
Amazon Web Services e VMware organizzano un evento virtuale gratuito il prossimo mercoledì 14 Ottobre dalle 12:00 alle 13:00 dedicato a VMware Cloud ™ on AWS, il servizio on demand che consente di eseguire applicazioni in ambienti cloud basati su VMware vSphere® e di accedere ad una vasta gamma di servizi AWS, sfruttando a pieno le potenzialità del cloud AWS e tutelando gli investimenti VMware esistenti.
Molte organizzazioni sfruttano i vantaggi del cloud migrando i propri carichi di lavoro Oracle e assicurandosi notevoli vantaggi in termini di agilità ed efficienza dei costi.
La migrazione di questi carichi di lavoro, può creare complessità durante la modernizzazione e il refactoring delle applicazioni e a questo si possono aggiungere rischi di prestazione che possono essere introdotti quando si spostano le applicazioni dai data center locali.
Crea la tua prima serverless ledger-based app con QLDB e NodeJSAmazon Web Services
Molte aziende oggi, costruiscono applicazioni con funzionalità di tipo ledger ad esempio per verificare lo storico di accrediti o addebiti nelle transazioni bancarie o ancora per tenere traccia del flusso supply chain dei propri prodotti.
Alla base di queste soluzioni ci sono i database ledger che permettono di avere un log delle transazioni trasparente, immutabile e crittograficamente verificabile, ma sono strumenti complessi e onerosi da gestire.
Amazon QLDB elimina la necessità di costruire sistemi personalizzati e complessi fornendo un database ledger serverless completamente gestito.
In questa sessione scopriremo come realizzare un'applicazione serverless completa che utilizzi le funzionalità di QLDB.
Con l’ascesa delle architetture di microservizi e delle ricche applicazioni mobili e Web, le API sono più importanti che mai per offrire agli utenti finali una user experience eccezionale. In questa sessione impareremo come affrontare le moderne sfide di progettazione delle API con GraphQL, un linguaggio di query API open source utilizzato da Facebook, Amazon e altro e come utilizzare AWS AppSync, un servizio GraphQL serverless gestito su AWS. Approfondiremo diversi scenari, comprendendo come AppSync può aiutare a risolvere questi casi d’uso creando API moderne con funzionalità di aggiornamento dati in tempo reale e offline.
Inoltre, impareremo come Sky Italia utilizza AWS AppSync per fornire aggiornamenti sportivi in tempo reale agli utenti del proprio portale web.
Database Oracle e VMware Cloud™ on AWS: i miti da sfatareAmazon Web Services
Molte organizzazioni sfruttano i vantaggi del cloud migrando i propri carichi di lavoro Oracle e assicurandosi notevoli vantaggi in termini di agilità ed efficienza dei costi.
La migrazione di questi carichi di lavoro, può creare complessità durante la modernizzazione e il refactoring delle applicazioni e a questo si possono aggiungere rischi di prestazione che possono essere introdotti quando si spostano le applicazioni dai data center locali.
In queste slide, gli esperti AWS e VMware presentano semplici e pratici accorgimenti per facilitare e semplificare la migrazione dei carichi di lavoro Oracle accelerando la trasformazione verso il cloud, approfondiranno l’architettura e dimostreranno come sfruttare a pieno le potenzialità di VMware Cloud ™ on AWS.
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) è un servizio di gestione dei container altamente scalabile, che semplifica la gestione dei contenitori Docker attraverso un layer di orchestrazione per il controllo del deployment e del relativo lifecycle. In questa sessione presenteremo le principali caratteristiche del servizio, le architetture di riferimento per i differenti carichi di lavoro e i semplici passi necessari per poter velocemente migrare uno o più dei tuo container.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
FIDO Alliance Osaka Seminar: Passkeys and the Road Ahead.pdf
The Total Cost of (Non) Ownership In The Cloud
1. The Total Cost of (Non)
Ownership In The Cloud
Kingsley Wood
kwood@amazon.com
Business Development
2. What Analysts are Saying about AWS
Infrastructure-as-a-Service Leader in 2011 Gartner IaaS Leader in 2011 Forrester
Market Share Leader Magic Quadrant Hadoop Wave
6. AWS Global Infrastructure
GovCloud US West US West US East South EU Asia Asia
(US ITAR (Northern (Oregon) (Northern America (Ireland) Pacific Pacific
Region) California) Virginia) (Sao Paulo) (Singapore) (Tokyo)
AWS Regions
AWS Edge Locations
7. The AWS Cloud Components For Enterprises
Tools to access
services
Cross Service
features
High-level
building blocks
Low-level
building blocks
10. When calculating TCO…
#1 Start by understanding your use
cases, and the applications that support
them
11. Analyze, Understand and Classify IT assets
List all your IT assets
Dash
board
Identify upward and
downward dependencies
Web CRM Auth Start classifying your IT assets
into different categories:
• Applications with Top
LDAP Service Secret, Secret, or Public data sets
DB
• Applications with low, medium and
Search high compliance requirements
OLAP Engine • Applications that are internal-
only, partner-only or customer-
facing
• Applications with low, medium and
ERP Report logs
high coupling
• Applications with strict, relaxed
licensing
12. Stack Rank your IT Assets, looking for:
Under-utilized IT assets
Applications that have an
immediate business need to
scale
Applications that are running
out of capacity
Applications that are easy to
move today
First successes will build
support within your
organization and create
awareness and excitement,
so choose carefully!
13. Application Usage Patterns
Steady State Spiky Predictable Uncertain Unpredictable
Example: Example: Example:
Corporate Data Logging Marketing Web Apps
Promotions Website
14. Pick the low-hanging fruit so you can learn
Dash
board
Web CRM
CRM Auth
Servic
LDAP
e
DB
DB
Search
OLAP Engine
ERP Report logs
15. When calculating TCO…
#1 Start by understanding your use cases,
and the applications that support them
#2 Take all the fixed costs into consideration
(Don’t forget all the hidden costs!)
16.
17. Take all the costs in to consideration
Fixed Cost Factors One-time Upfront Monthly
AWS Co-lo On-Site AWS Co-lo On-Site
Server Hardware 0 $$$ $$ $$ 0 0
Network Hardware 0 $$ $$ 0 0 0
Hardware Maintenance 0 $$ $$ 0 0 0
Software OS 0 $$ $$ $ 0 0
Power and Cooling and Data 0 0 $$ 0 0 $
Center Efficiency
Data Center/co-lo Space 0 $$ $$ 0 0 0
Personnel (Administration) 0 $$ $$ $ $$ $$$
Storage and Redundancy 0 $$ $$ $ 0 0
Bandwidth $ $$ $ $$ $ $
Resource Management 0 0 0 $$ $ 0
Software
Total
19. When calculating TCO…
#1 Start by understanding your use cases,
and the applications that support them
#2 Take all the fixed costs into consideration
(Don’t forget all the hidden costs!)
#3 Use Updated Pricing (compute, storage and net)
Price cuts, Tiered Pricing and Volume Discounts
20. Massive economies of scale and
efficiency improvements allow us to
continually lower prices
22. 20 price cuts in last 5 years
“It makes me look so good in front of my CFO. When he [CFO]
sees the savings in our AWS monthly bill, he thinks that it is me
who is working hard on driving the costs down and increasing
efficiency of the company’s infrastructure. I get all the credit for
all the hard work you guys are putting in.”
CIO of F500 company
Massive economies of scale and efficiency
improvements allow us to continually lower prices.
27. Did you know?
Free Usage Tier Free Services Data Transfer
New Customers AWS Elastic Beanstalk No Charge for
AWS CloudFormation
Amazon EC2 AWS IAM Inbound Data Transfer
Amazon RDS Auto Scaling
Amazon ELB Consolidated Billing Data Transfer between
Amazon S3 Instances within an
Amazon EBS Availability Zone
For All Customers
Amazon SQS/SNS
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon SES
Amazon SWF
And more…
28. When calculating TCO…
#1 Start by understanding your use
cases, and the applications that support
them
#2 Take all the fixed costs into consideration
(Don’t forget all the hidden costs!)
#3 Use Updated Pricing (compute, storage and net)
Price cuts, Tiered Pricing and Volume Discounts
#4 Leverage Reserved Pricing vs. On-Demand Pricing
(Amortize Monthly over 1-3 years)
29. Multiple pricing models allow you to
optimize costs for both variable and
stable workloads
On-Demand, Reserved (Light, Medium and Heavy for 1-Year, 3-Year) and Spot
30. Save more when you reserve
On-demand Reserved
Instances Instances
• Pay as you go • One time low
upfront fee +
Pay as you go
• Starts from • $23 for 1 year
$0.02/Hour term and
$0.01/Hour
1 and 3
year terms
Heavy Medium Light
Utilization RI Utilization RI Utilization RI
31. $14,000
$12,000 m2.xlarge running Linux in
US-East Region
$10,000 over 3 year period
$8,000
Cost
Heavy Utilization
$6,000 Medium Utilization
Light Utilization
$4,000 On-Demand
$2,000
$-
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Utilization
Utilization Sweet Spot Feature Savings over On-Demand
<10% On-Demand No Upfront Commitment
10% - 40% Light Utilization RI Ideal for Disaster Recovery Up to 56% (3-Year)
40% - 75% Medium Utilization RI Standard Reserved Capacity Up to 66% (3-Year)
>75% Heavy Utilization RI Lowest Total Cost Up to 71% (3-Year)
Ideal for Baseline Servers
33. TCO of Steady State Web Application
TCO Web Application - Steady State Usage Pattern
On-Premises AWS Option 1 AWS Option 2 AWS Option 3
Option All Reserved Mix of On-Demand All On-Demand
Amortized monthly costs over 3 years
(3-Year Heavy) and Reserved
Option 1: All Reserved
Compute/Server Costs
Recommended Option (Most Cost-effective)
Server Hardware $306.36 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Network Hardware $62.04 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Option 2: Hardware Maintenance
Mix of On-Demand and Reserved$47.10 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Power and Cooling $172.02 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Data Center Space $144.48 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Option 3:Personnel
All On-Demand $1,200.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Commitment-free and Risk-free Option
AWS Instances $0.00 $618.33 $1,079.42 $2,138.40
Total - Per Month $1,932.00 $618.33 $1,079.42 $2,138.40
Total - 3 Years $69,552.00 $22,260.00 $38,859.20 $76,982.40
Savings over On-Premises Option 68.0% 44.1% -10.7%
38. Light and Medium Utilization
Reserved Instances
Low upfront one-time fees
When you turn off, you save on hourly usage
39. TCO of uncertain unpredictable web application when it fails
TCO Web Application - Unpredictable Usage Pattern (Failure case)
On-Premises AWS Option 1 AWS Option 2 AWS Option 3
Amortized monthly costs over 3 years Option All Reserved Mix of On-Demand All On-Demand
and Reserved
Compute/Server Costs
Option 1: All Reserved
Server Hardware $816.96 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Network Hardware $165.44 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Option 2: Hardware Maintenance
Mix of On-Demand and Reserved
$125.60 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Power and Cooling $458.72 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Option 3: Data Center or Co-located Space
All On-Demand $385.28 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Commitment-free and Risk-free Option$3,200.00
Personnel $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Recommended Option (Most Cost-effective)
AWS Instances $0.00 $1,552.89 $1,275.46 $1,009.80
Total - Per Month $5,152.00 $1,552.89 $1,275.46 $1,009.80
Total - 3 Years $185,472.00 $55,904.00 $45,916.48 $36,352.80
Savings over On-Premises Option 69.9% 75.2% 80.4%
40. « Want to increase innovation?
Lower the cost of failure »
Joi Ito
41. Cost of lost business or disappointed customers
Uncertain Unpredictable Usage Pattern (Success Case)
40
36
32
Traffic in Instances
28
24
20 Actual Traffic
Expected Traffic
16
Reserved
12
On-Demand
8 Physical
4
0
0 6 12 18 24 30 36
Months
42. Save more money by using Spot Instances
On-demand Reserved Spot
Instances Instances Instances
• Pay as you go • One time low upfront • Requested Bid Price
fee + Pay as you go and Pay as you go
• $23 (1 year) • Varying…$0.005/Hour
• Starts from $0.01/Hour at 9am today
$0.02/Hour
1 and 3
year terms
Heavy Medium Light
Utilization RI Utilization RI Utilization RI
43. Save more money by using Spot Instances
Reserved Hourly Price > Spot Price < On-Demand Price
44. Spot Use cases
Use Case Types of Applications
Batch Processing Generic background processing (scale out computing)
Hadoop Hadoop/MapReduce processing type jobs (e.g. Search,
Big Data, etc.)
Scientific Computing Scientific trials/simulations/analysis in chemistry,
physics, and biology
Video and Image Transform videos into specific formats
Processing/Rendering
Testing Provide testing of software, web sites, etc
Web/Data Crawling Analyzing data and processing it
Financial Hedgefund analytics, energy trading, etc
HPC Utilize HPC servers to do embarrassingly parallel jobs
Cheap Compute Backend servers for Facebook games
45. Typical Spot Bidding Strategies
Bid Distribution
20%
18%
Percentage of the Distribution
16%
14%
12%
10%
8%
6%
4%
2%
0%
Bid Price as Percentage of the On-Demand Price
46. Optimizing Video Transcoding Workloads
Free Offering Premium Offering
• Optimize for reducing cost Optimized for Faster response times
• Acceptable Delay Limits No Delays
Implementation Implementation
• Set Persistent Requests Invest in RIs
• Use on-demand Instances, if Use on-demand for Elasticity
delay
Maximum Bid Price Maximum Bid Price
< On-demand Rate >= On-demand Rate
Get your set reduced price for Get Instant Capacity for higher price
your workload
47. When calculating TCO…
#1 Start by understanding your use
cases, and the applications that support
them
#2 Take all the fixed costs into consideration
(Don’t forget all the hidden costs!)
#3 Use Updated Pricing (compute, storage and net)
Price cuts, Tiered Pricing and Volume Discounts
#4 Leverage Reserved Pricing vs. On-Demand Pricing
(Amortize Monthly over 1-3 years)
#5 Intangible Cost Savings – Take a closer look at what
you get as part of AWS
48. AWS delivers a premium security spec at
non-premium prices
Certifications Physical Security HW, SW, Network
SOC 1 Type 2 Datacenters in Systematic change
(formerly SAS-70) nondescript facilities management
ISO 27001 Physical access Phased updates
strictly controlled deployment
PCI DSS for
EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, Must pass two-factor Safe storage
RDS, ELB, IAM authentication at decommission
least twice for floor
FISMA Moderate Automated
access
Compliant Controls monitoring and self-
Physical access audit
HIPAA & ITAR
logged and audited
Compliant Advanced network
Architecture protection
54. AWS Pricing Philosophy
Pay as you go
• No minimum commitments or long-term contracts required
• Capex -> Opex
• Turn off when you don’t need it
Pay less per unit when you use more
• Tiered Pricing and Volume Discounts
Pay even less when you reserve
• Reserved pricing
Pay even less as AWS grows
• Efficiencies, optimizations and economies of scale result in passing the
savings back to you in the form of lower pricing
57. How customers are
saving money with AWS
AWS Economics Center
IDC Report: The
aws.amazon.com/economics
Business Value of
TCO Whitepapers
AWS Accelerates
Calculator Tools
Over Time
aws.amazon.com/tco-calculator
Case Studies
We have really come a long way. Today, Amazon Web Services is not just one service but a suite of services that enterprises can leverage to deploy highly mission-critical applications with confidence. There is no limit to what you can do with AWS, whether it’s building a static website, deploying a web application, running data-and compute-intensive workloads, or storing data and building dependable backup solutions. The AWS cloud computing platform provides the flexibility to build your application, your way, regardless of your use case or industry.While the number and types of services offered by AWS has increased dramatically, our philosophy on pricing has not changed: at the end of each month, you pay only for what you use, and you can start or stop using a product at any time. No long-term contracts are required
Our strategy of pricing each service independently gives you tremendous flexibility to choose the services you need for each project and to pay only for what you usePay as you goPay less per unit when you use morePay even less when you reserve Pay even less as AWS grows
The first step in the migration of existing applications comes to classifying your IT assets. Some customers have looked at their IT departments from 50K view and have created dependency tree of their logical constructs. Listing all your IT assets and identifying the upward and downward dependencies. Andy felt that this was the most important step anyone can do. Within every organization there are variety of applications of different sizes and shapes and with different set of characteristics. Thinking that if one application cannot move, does not mean all applications cannot move. Breaking down the big job, into small tasks and tackling each task individually will get the big job done. So he classified the IT Asset portfolio into different categories – Top secret, secret, public datasets, Application with high low medium compliance requirements, Applications different security and licensing requirements.
Stack ranking your assets and prioritizing the applications based on simple criteria you defined earlier. Andy noticed very quickly that there were several applications which are “No Brainer to Move” and can be moved today and will result in immediate benefits of the cloud. At the same time, He also did not just select some applications that were just easy to move but also that were complex and can be used as a internal success story within the companyYou will notice that some applications are just plain drop dead cool if they moved to the cloud like your content, tutorial websites, pre-sales demo environments.
It is very important to know your costs. Most organizations get TCO calculations but they don’t know what the TCO of the indivual App is because central IT had cut a big fat check earlier in the past. In order to do real TCO analysis of App-level, you have to know that there are costs of Power, cooling, real estate system administration costs in case of on-premise data center and co-lo which is not in that of the cloud. I am even taking into account the value of “Headache” and cost of this undifferentiated heavy lifting. When you use AWS, all these costs are already baked in to your costs. You really don’t have to worry about all these costs. The other very important item that customers miss is Reserved Instances when doing long-term TCO calculations. Reserved instances can save you upto 50% for a 3-year term. Its our commitment to you and not your commitment to us. Andy took this into two things into consideration : know what he is currently paying for the app and understanding the reserved instance pricing
Personnel costs include the cost of the sizable IT infrastructure teams that are needed to handle the “heavy lifting” – managing heterogeneous hardware and the related supply chain, staying up-to-date on data center design, negotiating contracts, dealing with legacy software, operating data centers, moving facilities, scaling and managing physical growth, etc. These are all the things that an enterprise needs to do well if it wants to achieve low infrastructure costs in the areas discussed above. For example: Hardware procurement teams are needed, who have to spend a lot of time evaluating hardware, negotiating, holding hardware vendor meetings, managing delivery and installation, etc. It’s expensive to have a staff with sufficient knowledge to do this well.Data center design and build teams are needed to create and maintain reliable and cost-effective facilities.Operations staff is needed 24/7/365 in each facility to manage MySQL Databases. This staff is responsible for installing, patching, upgrades, migration, backups, snapshots and recovery of databases, ensuring availability, trouble shooting and performance enhancements.Networking teams are needed for running a highly available network. Expertise is needed to design, debug, scale, and operate the network and deal with the external relationships necessary to have cost-effective internet transit.Security personnel are needed at all phases of the design, build, and operations process.
To this….
Option 1: This is the most cost-effective option. You save 68% over the on-premises option. By purchasing 3-Year Heavy Utilization Reserved Instances, you get the maximum savings and lowest rates for your Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon RDS DB instances. Option 2: This option offers 44.13% savings over the on-premises option. By purchasing 3-Year Heavy Utilization Reserved Instances only for your baseline traffic, you pay less upfront ($6,200) than AWS option 1 ($9,300) and on-premises option ($14,952). This is the lowest total upfront commitment option among all AWS options.Option 3: With AWS, you also have an option to choose zero upfront commitment and leverage On-Demand Instances for your steady state workloads. Some AWS customers prefer this option over other options because it allows them to start small without any upfront commitment whatsoever, and therefore provides maximum flexibility while reducing risk to close to zero. For only a 10% cost premium over on-premises infrastructure – which requires 100% up-front purchase and very little flexibility -- , they have an environment that can be started-up or completely shut down to zero at a moment’s notice.
Only happens in the cloud
Option 1: This option offers 69% savings over the on-premises option. By purchasing 3-Year Heavy Utilization Reserved Instances (to match the capacity in the on-premises option), you get the lowest hourly rate for your Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS DB instances. Option 2: This is the most cost-effective option and also the most flexible option. By purchasing 3-Year Heavy Utilization Reserved Instances to handle your baseline traffic and leveraging On-Demand Instances for your peaks, you not only get maximum savings but also enhanced flexibility. The significant savings is due to efficient use of your resources. You use them only when you need to without having to provision for peak capacity. You also have lower total upfront cost ($6,200) than AWS option 1 ($15,500) and on-premises option ($24,920).Option 3: In this option, there is no upfront commitment and you still get significant savings (40%) over the on-premises option. By leveraging On-Demand Instances, you only pay for what you use. This option is best if you want maximum flexibility and zero up-front cost (e.g. many early-stage start-ups fit this profile). Your savings are not as high as in the AWS options with Reserved Instances, but you still get significant savings and flexibility with this option
We have to be wrong a lot in order to right a lotCloud really helps you to reduce the cost of failure.
Vimeo is about to come out with a case study. They have 2 offerings: free and premium. The free case they want to minimize cost. They have the ability to have some delay in the service while they transcode the data. So, they set a maximum of $x on the amount they would pay for an hour, and use Spot for the task. If they haven’t gotten capacity in a long time, they choose to start in On-Demand. The premium case they want the media encoding to happen immediately. So, they purchase Reserved Instances to optimize their expected level of demand (note breakeven is around 30% utilization, so buying more RIs may make sense). Then, they use On-Demand for elasticity. If they can’t get the On-Demand when they need it, they try in Spot (e.g. you can get capacity not available anywhere else). In all, they have optimized for their SLA for the premium offering, and minimized cost in their free offering. Both are legitimate scenarios, and AWS is the only provider to support the pricing models to allow them to do it.
Examining AWS, you’ll see that the same security isolations are employed as would be found in a traditional datacenter. These include physical datacentre security, separation of the network, isolation of the server hardware, and isolation of storage. AWS customers have control over their data: they own the data, not us; they can encrypt their data at rest and in motion, just as they would in their own datacenter. Amazon Web Services provides the same, familiar approaches to security that companies have been using for decades. Importantly, it does this while also allowing the flexibility and low cost of cloud computing. There is nothing inherently at odds about providing on-demand infrastructure while also providing the security isolation companies have become accustomed to in their existing, privately-owned environments.AWS is a secure, durable technology platform with industry-recognized certifications and audits: PCI DSS Level 1, ISO 27001, FISMA Moderate, HIPAA, SAS 70 Type II. Our services and data centers have multiple layers of operational and physical security designed to protect the integrity and safety of your data. Visit our Security Center to learn more http://aws.amazon.com/security/.Certifications and Accreditations: AWS has successfully completed a SAS70 Type II Audit, and will continue to obtain the appropriate security certifications and accreditations to demonstrate the security of our infrastructure and services. PCI DSS: We finalized our 2011 PCI compliance audit, publishing our extensive Report on Controls (ROC) with an expanded scope. Our new November 30, 2011 PCI Attestation of Compliance, a document from our auditor stating we are compliant with all 12 PCI security standard domains, is available now for customers considering or working on moving PCI systems to AWS. The new Attestation of Compliance document includes some key changes this year: This year we’ve added RDS, ELB, and IAM as in-scope services. The addition of these services is fantastic news for PCI customers since they can now leverage RDS to store cardholder and transaction data, use ELB to manage card transaction traffic, and rely on IAM features as validated control mechanisms that satisfy PCI security standard requirements. Consistent with last year, EC2, S3, EBS, and VPC continue to be in scope. Physical Security: Amazon has many years of experience in designing, constructing, and operating large scale data centers. AWS infrastructure is housed in Amazon-controlled data centers throughout the world. Only those within Amazon who have a legitimate business need to have such information know the actual location of these data centers, and the data centers themselves are secured with a variety of physical barriers to prevent unauthorized access.Secure Services: Each of the services within the AWS cloud is architected to be secure and contains a number of capabilities that restrict unauthorized access or usage without sacrificing the flexibility that customers demand. Data Privacy: AWS enables users to encrypt their personal or business data within the AWS cloud and publishes backup and redundancy procedures for services so that customers can gain greater understanding of how their data flows throughout AWS.“In essence, the security system of AWS’s platform has been added to our existing security systems. We now have a security posture consistent with that of a multi-billion dollar company.” - Jim Warren, CIO, Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board (RATB)
Cloud is highly cost-effective because you can turn off and stop paying for it when you don’t need it or your users are not accessing. Build websites that sleep at night
Reduced TCO remains one of the core reasons why customers choose the AWS cloud. However, there are a number of other benefits when you choose AWS, such as reduced time to market and increased business agility, which cannot be overlooked.
While the number and types of services offered by AWS has increased dramatically, our philosophy on pricing has not changed: at the end of each month, you pay only for what you use, and you can start or stop using a product at any time. No long-term contracts are requiredPay as you go. No required minimum commitments, no longterm contracts. This flexibility minimizes the need for detailed resource planning. Pay per use. Pay only for what you use. With AWS, there’s no need to pay up-front for excess capacity or get penalized for under-planning. For compute resources, you pay on an hourlybasis from the time you launch a resource until the time you terminate it. For data storage and transfer, you pay on a per gigabyte basis. We charge based on the underlying infrastructure and services you consume. Pay less by using more. For storage and data transfer, pricing is tiered. The more you use, the less you pay per gigabyte. Pay even less when you reserve. For certain products, you can invest in reserved capacity. In that case, you pay a one-time low upfront fee, and your on-demand rate is reduced by 28% to 58%. Custom pricing. What if none of our pricing models work for your project? Custom pricing is available for high volume projects with unique requirements. For assistance, contact us to speak with a sales representative.